Research Paper Volume 13, Issue 5 pp 6702—6711

The impact of visceral obesity on chronic constipation, inflammation, immune function and cognitive function in patients with inflammatory bowel disease

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Figure 1. Comparison of visceral obesity of two patients with same BMI. The first patient has lower BMI than the other patient (20.1 kg/m2 vs. 29.3kg/m2), and its VAT/SAT ratio is also lower, which means that patient with lower BMI has less visceral obesity (VAT/SAT ratio: 1.22 vs. 2.48).